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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:46:14 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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Cc: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ZFS on small systems
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:35:37PM +0200, Anselm Strauss typed:
> Thanks for your advice, Steve.
> 
> I looked a bit at the source code and in
> /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c and I
> found this:
> 
> /* set min cache to 1/32 of all memory, or 16MB, whichever is more */
> arc_c_min = MAX(arc_c / 4, 64<<18);
> 
> Could this mean that 16 MB are already enough to run ZFS?

I seriously doubt it.

Ruben